Positivity: Singing her heart out for the lifesavers
8:50am Monday 23rd July 200
LITTLE Rosie Wright looked a picture of happiness as she sang for shoppers, a year after being seriously injured in the Dreamspace tragedy.
The four-year-old who, a year ago today, was thrown 50ft into the air as the Dreamspace inflatable broke free from its moorings in Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street, sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star at The Galleries shopping centre, in Washington.
Rosie and her family were raising money for the Great North Air Ambulance, which airlifted her to hospital and ultimately saved her life.
Singers from the North East Talent Enterprise performed for shoppers on Saturday, but Rosie stole the show.
Dressed as a purple fairy, she sang her favourite nursery rhyme twice, before being joined by brother Jack, five, for a verse of Wheels on the Bus. But it was a very different story 12 months ago, when Rosie, then three, from Langley Park, County Durham, suffered terrible injuries after the inflatable slipped its moorings, flipped over and was dragged for about 100 yards before crashing to the ground.
She suffered a punctured lung, spinal fractures, broken thigh, ribs and ankle, multiple rib fractures, liver lacerations and a head wound.
Watching Rosie perform, her mother, Penny, said: “The children are elated to be here to support the Great North Air Ambulance. They saved my daughter’s life. Without them, she wouldn’t be here today.
“Now the holidays are here, we’re going to do as much fundraising as we can.”
Recalling the events of last summer, Mrs Wright said: “I remember we were having a fantastic time - a lovely day out - and then it went so horribly wrong. The next thing I knew I looked up and the air ambulance was there.” …..
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